*This post contains affiliate links. If you click & purchase an item with those links I will receive compensation, with no expense to you of course.Thanks for your support Now that the 2016-2017 school year has come to its screeching halt (at least for us) I wanted to do a...

As you know I’ve been homeschooling for quite sometime and nothing says, “I’m stinkin’ done with this guys”, quite like the semester back from the holiday season. Can I get an Amen from my homeschooling mama’s! Well every year I am determined to beat this funk and the last few...

Blended families are a breed of their own. Not only are they completely different from the traditional family, they’re also many different kinds of blended families. You have the families in which the kids were introduced at such a young age, that they don’t know any different. There’s the...

JUNE Half the month of June had us back home in California visiting my parents. It was nice. I was, however, determined to fit everything I needed, for a month, mid May to Mid June, into a tiny suitcase. And I succeeded in that endeavor! I practically lived in flip...

So I was thinking about perspective this morning. I was considering how a situation can arise one day and I may have a pretty joyful perspective on it. Then say, two weeks later (and depending on my outlook on life at the moment), the same situation may arise but it’s now...

Week 3 Read: John 2: 13-25 So What’s Right? Following the wedding banquet, we read in John 2:13-25 which is an illustration of Jesus at the temple courts. This is one of those passages that I often hear twisted to make it easier for us to give into our anger....

I have had an Ever-changing, Head Case of a Diet since I was 14 years old! Fourteen!!! I know that’s incredibly young! When I was fourteen, my sister stopped eating red meat and since I lived with her, I did too. Once I moved back in with my parents and...

*some links on this post may have affiliate links In my 7 years of homeschooling this is actually the 1st year I have ever felt great about , nearly all our curriculum choices! I’m talking 7 years of attempting to be joyful, despite the pure hatred of one, or more...

So I had this obsession since I was about 14 yrs old, and it’s called “THRIFTING”!!! My big sis is 8 years older than I am. When I was a wee teen, I totally thought of her as like this super gorgeous, model, style icon. So when she would drag me...

Week 2 Read: John 2:1-12 So What is Right? So there’s a couple things that are quite intriguing to me in these passages. John 2 starts off with Jesus at the wedding banquet with his mother. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”...